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Maria McGarrity
Academic Specialties & Research Interests
My work in British, Irish, and Caribbean literatures and
cultures grows out of a desire to examine the intersections
between literary modernism and the global impact of colonialism.
I am particularly interested in the demise of the British
Empire and the role of geography in creating what I call an
"island imaginary" for writers. For example, EA
Markham's Letters from Ulster and the Hugo Poems joins
the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland with the aftermath
of Hurricane Hugo in the Caribbean and highlights the imperfect
and yet enduring relation among these cultures. The complex
interplay of cultures that makes up both Ireland and the Caribbean,
the islands they inhabit both literally and metaphorically,
ensures that neither peoples nor cultures exist in anything
less than a "meta-archipelago." The links in these
chains of islands and peoples, dispersed geographically, economically,
and politically connect strongly not simply throughout the
North Atlantic but throughout the larger diasporic world.
Book
Washed by the Gulf Stream: the Historic and Geographic
Relation of Irish and
Caribbean Literature. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2008.
Edited Volume
Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive, co-edited
collection with Claire Culleton, New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Introduction," co-authored with Claire Culleton,
Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 1-16.
"Primitive Emancipation: Religion, Sexuality, and Freedom
in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
and Ulysses" in Irish Modernism and the Global
Primitive. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 133-152.
"Hell's Kitchen as Contact Zone: the Essentialized African
in Jim Sheriden's In America." CLA Journal.
51 (2008): 304-323.
"'I'm a Naughty Girl': Prostitution and Outsider Women
in James Joyce's 'The Boarding House' and Eric Walrond's 'The
Palm Porch,'" with co-author, Louis J. Parascandola,
College Language Association Journal. 50 (2006): 141-161.
"Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures: an Eastward Economy
of Disease." Victorians Institute Journal. 34
(2006):127-144.
"The Gulf Stream and the Epic Drives of Joyce and Walcott."
Ariel:
a Review of International English Literature. 34 (2003):
1-22.
"Impossible Sanctuary: Geography, Sexual Transgression,
and Flight in Big House and Plantation Novels." Journal
of West Indian Literature. 11 (2003): 29-57.
Edited with an Introduction, William Paulet Carey's Critical
Description of Thomas Stothard's Canterbury Pilgrims.
The Illustrated Chaucer. Joseph Rosenblum and William
Finley, eds. New Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak
Knoll Press and The British Library, 2003. 379-422.
"An Extreme, Epicentric Joyce: Berkeley 2001."
James Joyce Quarterly 27 (1999): 18-21.
"The 'Houses of decay' and Shakespeare's 'Sonnet XIII:'
Another Nexus in 'Proteus.'" James Joyce Quarterly
35 (1997): 153-155.
Book Reviews
My reviews have appeared in The James Joyce Quarterly;The
James Joyce Literary Supplement;English Literature
in Transition: 1880-1920;Anthurium: a Journal of Caribbean
Studies;The Journal of Third World Studies; and
Clio: a Journal of Literature, History, and Intellectual
History.
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